Road Accidents Claimed 252 Lives During The Festive Period – FRSC

About 252 people lost their lives in road crashes across the country during the festive period, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) disclosed at the weekend.
This figure, according to the commission, covers December 19 to 31, 2013, with the projection of 15 percent reduction in auto-crashes this year.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja,, the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Osita Chidoka, noted that although the Commission’s calculation for the festive period was still on, the 2013 road accident casualty increased with 108 compared to the 244 recorded in 2012.
Chidoka maintained that the total number of road crashes in the period under review was 461 with 1,438 people injured.
According to him, 788 vehicles were involved in auto crashes with 1,519 people rescued alive.
He further revealed that 1,013 offenders were during the period arraigned in mobile courts, 867 out of them were convicted with fines, and 146 the discharged and acquitted.

NASU Predicts More Strikes In 2014

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) has predicted that the strikes witnessed in the education sector in 2013 was not the end of industrial actions in the sector, as it would be hit by a barrage of strikes in all sub-sectors in 2014.
The union however notes that the strikes can be averted if the federal government, as a matter of urgency, begins to implement all its signed agreements with the various unions in the education sector. Majority of the agreements, NASU said, are already due for re-negotiation even though the contents of the subsisting agreements have not been fully addressed by the government.
The union also noted that the government seems to be distracted with the numerous political crises caused by politicians and has therefore not been able to concentrate on the need for stability and industrial peace.
Speaking to Thisday in an interview, General Secretary of NASU, Mr. Peters Adeyemi, said the events in the education sector in the out-gone year demonstrated the inability of the federal government to give effect to its own commitments and in several instances has gone back on its own words.
This, he added, resulted in the strikes that cut across the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), NASU, and unions in the research institutes and others.
The six-month ASUU strike, according to Adeyemi, could have been averted as the same steps that were taken to end the strike ought to have been taken before the commencement of the strike, such as the eventual deposit of the N200 billion intervention fund into a dedicated account and the payment of earned allowances.
He noted that Polytechnics have also been on strike for several months with Non-Academic Staff in Polytechnics and Colleges of Education also currently on strike, and nothing seems to be in the works to end the strikes.
“NASU in the polytechnics have been on strike for more than two months and the irony is that nobody has talked to any of the unions,” he said.
“NASU in the Colleges of Education has been on strike for more than one month, nobody is talking to us, not even to acknowledge the receipt of our letter, just recently, the lecturers in the Colleges of Education also started their own strike.”
“All these are pointers that government is clearly very insensitive and I think we are going to be out for even worse situation in 2014, unless government can very speedily address the issues that are contentious,” Adeyemi said.
“It looks to me as if because government appears to be pre-occupied with numerous crises; political crises generated by politicians, they are not able to concentrate on the need for stability and industrial peace. I do not see how they can manage both together, if they cannot ensure that there is industrial stability in the various institutions, the government is likely to be faced with barrage of negative comments even from the opposition to say that they are incapable of managing the government” he warned.
“Government should devise a system by which they can speedily look at all the issues that are outstanding right now with the unions and address them without necessarily waiting until strikes go into several months. Government needs to act fast in 2014; the strikes are not good for our country, and not good for the image of this government, a government that wants to be one of the world’s biggest economies by 2020.
“If you do not address and make sure education runs well, how do you attain that objective? When you talk about technological advancement and breakthrough, if your schools are not working, how do you get that? And if we wait until when Mr. President would now begin to hold 14 hours meeting, five hours meeting…how many Presidents devote such hours to meeting with unions and resolving crises? Why don’t we do what we need to do first?” he added.

Student Demands N102m From DHL Over Missing Credentials

DHL International Nigeria Limited is facing an N100m suit over missing credentials of a student.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the DHL management to appear before it over allegation of negligence, which led to the loss of original documents entrusted in the company’s capacity.
Mr. Daniel Okon Etuk, an engineering graduate of the University of Uyo, who was in 2013 admitted to study Pharmacy and Medicine at the South Western University, Philippines, is demanding the total sum of N102 million from DHL as cumulative damages for loss of his original credentials.
According to a writ of summons, dated December 10, 2013, filed on behalf of Etuk by A.C Negedu of Leo Ekpenyong Chambers, it noted that the original credentials, sent through DHL courier with waybill number 2817947565, was neither delivered nor returned to him.
This, according to the court papers, led to Etuk’s inability to be duly registered as a student of the university after the admission was offered to him.
Negedu stated in the court process that his client had fulfilled the admission requirements of the university, consequently original copies of his credentials, consisting of his WAEC certificate, birth certificate, police report and other supporting documents were sent through DHL, but could not be traced. He added that his client had expended about N2 million in processing the said admission, including flight ticket, accommodation and procurement of Philippines visa as well as authentication of the documents at the Philippines embassy.
“The plaintiff avers that from the 19th June, 2103 when the documents were delivered to the defendant for onward transmission, till date of the issuance of this writ, the defendant has failed, refused and neglected to either deliver the document to the said address or return it to the plaintiff.”
He added that his client relied upon the expertise and professionalism of DHL as an internationally renowned courier company and disclosed the nature and urgency required in the delivery of the document.
Etuk is however seeking the court to declare that DHL breached their obligation under the contract, as it failed to deliver the parcel at the same time negligent when it misplaced and lost the document.
He is praying the court to grant him compensation of N2 million, being the sum lost in processing entry into the South western University Philippines, the sum of N50 million being general damages for breach of contract, and another N50 million as exemplary damages for the trauma, pains, academic setback and aborted career occasioned by DHL’s act of negligence, and the substantial cost of the litigation.

SURE-P: 126,122 Graduates Registered Online Under GIS

The Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE –P) on Saturday in Abuja said 126,122 graduates have registered online for the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) project.

Mr Audu Maikori, the SURE-P Convener, Community Service, Women and Youth Employment, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the scheme was however targeted to create opportunity for 25,000 graduates.
He said the project only needed 25,000 graduates who would be attached to 7,000 firms across the country.
The SURE-P official said the beneficiaries would be mentored by the firms to enhance their employment opportunities.
“So far the following have been achieved: 126,122 graduates have been registered on the scheme online till date and 4,450 firms have been registered to assist in the programme.
“Six hundred and seventy graduates have been matched with some of the firms and 5,589 are still to be hired”, he said.
Maikori said also that SURE-P had been able to increase the beneficiaries’ stipend from N18, 000 to N25, 000 since July 2013.
He added that some state governments had indicated interest in paying an additional N10, 000 each to the beneficiaries to support the efforts of SURE-P for the scheme.
“I think that is a great thing. What we are trying to do is to work more.
“We are also reaching out to a lot in the corporate community, such as business organs and SMEs who I think will be the biggest beneficiaries.
“These small companies need support, especially when the government is not giving them loans. At least, the manpower is free”, Maikori.
He said SURE-P would continue in 2014 to partner with state governments and the business community which services the various state governments.
“Having done that of Lagos state in December, we want to focus our attention on Kano state or Kaduna state and reach out to the people in the first quarter of 2014.
“We will go to the South-South, to a place such as Port Harcourt, especially where there are a lot of companies and not just in any state, but where the region has the most number of companies”, the SURE-P official said.
Speaking on challenges the programme had been facing, Maikori said the major one was the perception of politicians that the scheme was a PDP project.
“Many people are yet to believe in the selection process.
“The common thing is that people are expecting that they should all benefit from the programme at the same time”, the official said.
He expressed hope that many Nigerians would understand the benefit of the programme and key into it, with the sensitisation programme to be embarked upon in 2014. (NAN)

How cute pics of father tending to his daughters caused uproar online

How cute pics of father tending to his daughters caused uproar online

The bashing on the internet is sometimes unbelievable. Photos that are supposed to be described as cute and loving is being highly criticized. Doyin Richards, a Los Angeles-based Nigerian father and blogger who is currently taking a paternity leave of absence, posted the pics you see above of himself tending to his daughters on his blog - Daddydoinwork.com while his wife went off to work and this incurred the wrath of his readers.

The images, which went viral, had some of his readers lashing him viciously, calling him a lazy man who should be out looking for a job instead of taking pride in staying at home, looking after his girls and sharing photos on the internet. Lol. Unbelievable! Continue...

Doyin said he took the pictures so he could prove to his mixed-race wife that he could tend to their two young daughters, a 2 year old and a 6 months old, all alone.

Doyin wrote:

Well, his readers didn't find it funny and abused the shit out of him...lol. See some comments below..

Doyin replied...

Wole Soyinka's daughter, Iyetade Soyinka, laid to rest

Wole Soyinka's daughter, Iyetade Soyinka, laid to rest

The remains of the second daughter of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, Iyetade Soyinka was  laid to rest today Friday January 10th in Ibadan. A service held at the Chapel of the Resurrection, University of Ibadan, while the interment took place at the Ultimate Gardens, a private cemetery.

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, Ogun state officials, family and friends attended the burial. Iyetade died Dec 28th after a brief illness.

Boko Haram: Jonathan Orders Release Of 167 Suspects – DHQ

The Defence Headquarters on Friday ordered the release of 167 suspects arrested in connection with Boko Haram insurgency in line with a presidential directive.

The suspects, who are to be released, include 157 from facilities in Borno State, nine from Yobe and one from Adamawa.
The affected persons would be released to their respective state governments by the appropriate military formations/commands in the three Northeast states which are currently under emergency rule.
The Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Justice will work out the modalities for the trial of 500 suspects who have cases to answer.
But about 1,000 other suspects are still in detention while investigation of their activities, especially the extent of their involvement in terrorism, is ongoing.
A statement issued in Abuja by the Defence Spokesman, Gen. Chris Olukolade, confirmed the directive to release the 167 suspects.
The statement said: “Over 165 persons apprehended in the course of military operations on terror in three states in the North-East are to be released from custody in compliance with Presidential directive.
“The suspects are those earlier recommended for release by the Joint Investigation Team, (JIT) set up by the Defence Headquarters last year. Of the number, 157 are from facilities in Borno, nine from Yobe and one suspect from Adamawa.
“It will be recalled that other detainees, particularly women and children have benefited from similar gestures which started in May last year. More suspects in this category are also to benefit in the present exercise.
“The suspects will be released to their respective state governments”.
It would be recalled that the Defence Headquarters had released all women and children in detention in connection with terrorism following a similar directive by President Goodluck Jonathan in May, 2013.

National Confab: Igbo Leaders Reply Okunrounmu Over Nwabueze Attack

The Igbo Leaders of Thought, an organisation of Igbo leaders, has berated the Chairman of the now rested Presidential Advisory Committee on the proposed National Dialogue, Senator Femi Okunrounmu, over his media attacks on legal luminary and leader of the group, Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN).

In a statement issued in Awka, Anambra State capital on Friday, the group said Okunrounmu’s “vituperation on Nwabueze was uncalled for”.
The statement was signed by Mr. Elliot Uko, the Deputy Secretary of the Igbo Leaders of Thought.
Okunrounmu had at a press briefing held at his private residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Wednesday, referred to Nwabueze as “Mr. Know It All” while reacting to the position of the Igbo Leaders of Thought on the proposed national dialogue, stating that Nwabueze would always try to discredit a project or policy that he is not put in charge of.
The statement said, “Calling Nwabueze “Mr. Know it All” and alleging that the eminent constitutional lawyer disparages ‘anything he is not in charge of’ is a very weak attempt to divert public attention from the grave issues Igbo Leaders of Thought, led by our great leader, Nwabueze, raised.
“Neither the Igbo Leaders of Thought nor Nwabueze raised any issues with the person of our respected Senator Okunrounmu.
“What we said is that the report of PAC falls short of the expeditions of Nigerians who desire a genuine national conference of ethnic nationalities.”
The statement reiterated the position of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, which called for the creation of a new peoples’ constitution as against the purported recommendation of the committee that the existing one should be amended; the inclusion of all ethnic nationalities at the conference; and that the findings and conclusions of the conference should not be passed to the National Assembly for approval but rather should be subjected to a referendum.
It also said, “The National Assembly should pass an enabling law to legalise the National Conference as inherent powers of the President has been successfully challenged in several courts in the past”.

Kaduna Frees 58 Prison Inmates Awaiting Trial

The Kaduna State Government on Friday said it has freed 58 prison inmates awaiting trial at the Kaduna Central Prisons.

The Acting Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Justice, Gamellion Kore, disclosed this in Kaduna.
“The state government pardoned and freed a total of 58 inmates on awaiting trial between Monday, January 6 to Friday, 10. This exercise is to de-congest prisons in Kaduna State. We are planning to release a total of 800 inmates based on minor offences as they constitute the large chunk of those in prisons. Those standing trial for capital offences would be considered later,” he said.
Mr. Kore noted that the facilities at the prison were overstretched.
“As at today, the total number of inmates in Kaduna prison is 721. Out of this, 706 are males while 15 are females. Also, out of the figure, 437 of the inmates are awaiting trial while 282 are serving various prison terms after their conviction,” he said. (NAN)

Mother Of 18-yr-old Boy Who Killed 12-yr-old Girl For Ritual Says Boy Was Possessed

 The strangling of a 12-year-old girl, Bose Ogoja, by an 18-year-old boy, Ikechukwu Lucky, has been attributed to by the boy’s mother to his possession of an evil spirit.
The boy had been arrested by the police in Lagos State for strangling Ogoja to death for money ritual, in Badagry area of the state.
Speaking to newsmen yesterday, mother of the boy, Esa Egbo said her son had been arrested four times for attempting to r*pe little girls between the ages of 10 and 15 years by the police in Badagry Division.
Mrs. Egbo also said she and her family are members of Perfect Christianity Mission in Surulere area of Lagos, where Dr. Ofuche Ukoha (aka Sign Fireman) is the General Overseer, adding that her son does not know or have any access to the cleric, whom he claimed sent him to kill the girl.
According to her, two years ago, a neighbour laid a curse on her son and after then he started behaving strangely, thereby attempting to r*pe little children whenever he sees them.
“He started two years ago to molest girls in attempt to r*pe them. It is not an ordinary thing. You know some people are very good in hurting other people’s children. So for that reason I am suspecting that. He has been staying with me from birth and just two years ago when he was 16 years old, a man who lives close to us laid a curse on him.
“What happened was that we have a well in our compound and Ikechukwu and one of the man’s daughters were at the well fetching water and they had a quarrel. Ikechuwu beat up the girl and when the man returned he brought out a belt to whip Ike and I prevented him. He started boasting that he was going to make Ike useless and miserable. I thought he was joking but after that Ikechuwu started behaving funny.
“Whenever he goes out during the day and sees a little girl he would grip and attempt to r*pe her and the girl would scream alerting people around, who would arrest and beat him up before handing him over to the police at Badagry Police Station.
“On lucky days, he would escape and flee the area. He has been arrested four times over the same offence and I am the one who normally goes to bail him.
“In April last year, he made me lose over N25,000 I paid as WAEC exam fee. On the day he was supposed to start the exam, he left home with his school uniform and didn’t return until after two weeks. When he came back he told me that the demon came over him on his way to school and he gripped a girl and when the girl screamed he managed to escape so he decided to run away from home.
“I and the father went to beg the people whose child he molested and I decided to follow him to school through out his NECO examinations.
“The last one before this occurred on December 10, 2013 at Imeke. He was arrested and charged to court and remanded in Badagry Prison. I got a lawyer who stood for him before he was granted bail.
“While these things were happening, I told our branch pastor at Badagry about it but I didn’t tell our GO.
“Whenever he sees a little girl he would grip the girl and when she screams he would return to him self. He does not do it at night, it’s always during the day time.
“On this particular case, he told me that he was going to work at a place where a building was demolished by government opposite the French Village in Badagry. They are actually constructing a factory at that place and he used to help them carry bags of cement for which they paid him some stipends at the end of the day.
“He failed to return home that day and I and his father went out to look for him at his place of work and people around told us that they didn’t see him. The next day we didn’t see him, so by Wednesday, we decided to go to the police station at Badagry.
“A police woman we met told us that we should go to the SCID to look for him. I asked her what was his offence and she refused to tell me, rather she said when I got to the SCID that I would know what was my son’s offence.
“The next day I and my husband went to the SCID and when I saw my son he told me that there was a woman who sells food close to where he used to work and the woman had a daughter.
“He said on that day he was eating at the woman’s shop when he saw the girl passing and all of a sudden something came over him and he stood up and followed the girl and gripped her so tight and the girl screamed and died after which he regained consciousness.
“He attempted to run, but someone at a building close by who saw all what happened apprehended him. He used to tell me that he was not misbehaving consciously but that something used to come over him and I have told our branch pastor about it and he prayed for him.
“My son didn’t accuse the GO. I don’t have the GO’s phone number and that of my son. My son didn’t beg the GO for money and even our branch pastor he has never gone to beg for money. Ikechukwu was the most gentle of all my children but this demon destroyed his life.”
When Vanguard contacted Dr. Fireman, he claimed innocence, saying he does not know the boy.
“I don’t know that boy and if anybody should know him or his family as members of our church, it’s the Badagry branch pastor. I am the GO of my church. You can imagine how possible it would be for an 18-year-old boy from a distant branch to have easy access to me talk alone contracting him to kill someone on my behalf.”

Photo: South African pastor makes members eat grass

Photo: South African pastor makes members eat grass

God forgive for saying this, but how stupid can some people be? And how do you follow and obey another human being so blindly? A pastor in South Africa, Pastor Lesego Daniel (you will find his pics after the cut) is making his members eat grass. Yes, grass!

Pastor Daniel, who is the founder and Head Pastor at Rabboni Centre Ministries, situated at Zone 2 Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, said he was basically trying to prove that humans can be controlled by the spirit and they can eat anything to feed their bodies. I don't know how he managed to convince his members to go outside the church and start eating grass, but he! Unbelievable! See more photos after the cut...

 Pastor Daniel Lesego above

 And see what he's doing here...

Fight Over Air Conditioner Led to Stabbing To Death of a Woman

A woman was fatally stabbed during what her friends say was a dispute over an air conditioner.
Margaret Elizabeth Steer, 56, was stabbed to death Saturday night in a 12th-floor apartment in public housing building at 500 McNab St. N.
Several of her friends told QMI Agency on Sunday she had lent an air conditioner to another woman who had not returned it.
Steer and her boyfriend went to recover the unit and she was killed in the resulting bloody melee, according to Steer’s friends.
“I’m really upset about it. It shouldn’t have happened over an air conditioner,” said Jo Anne Catlano, who has lived in the building for four years.
Catlano said she spoke with her friend, who went by her middle name “Elizabeth” around the building, earlier Saturday evening.

Shock As 18-Yr-Old Boy Narrates How He Killed 12-Yr-Old Girl For Money Ritual In Lagos

IKECHUKWU FRIDAY

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday announced the arrest of an 18-year old boy, Ikechukwu Friday for allegedly strangulating a 12-year old girl to death for money ritual purposes.

The suspect, who is currently cooling his heels at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, was paraded before newsmen.
According to him, his quest to become rich led him to a pastor, who purportedly instructed him to kill a young girl and obtain her faeces, with a promise of N100, 000 if he was able to accomplish the task.
He said, “I attend a popular church around Ketu Street, Aguda, but I live with my parents in Badagry. I just finished secondary school and I have been very broke. So, I approached the pastor for money, but he told me that I should strangulate a little girl.
“He explained that while strangulating the girl, she would pass out faeces in the throes of death. The pastor said I should obtain the faeces and bring it to him. He said if I could do this, he would give me N100, 000.
“On December 30, 2013, I approached a young girl, Bose Ogoja. Her mother sells food in Badagry and I usually patronise them; so she trusted me. I told the girl that I wanted to show her something and she should follow me. I took her to an abandoned NITEL building and locked the door.
“I squeezed her neck and truly, she passed out faeces. I was, however, not able to get the faeces because I was caught before I could escape”.
The suspect, an indigene of Onitsha, Anambra State, pleaded for leniency, stressing that this was his first crime.
Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide told reporters that the boy was arrested by neighbours in the area and handed over to the Badagry Police Division.
Braide said the pastor, who allegedly gave the suspect the instruction had been arrested and was already cooperating with the police.
While displaying the gruesome picture of the slain girl, Braide said, “He was arrested in an uncompleted building. The security guard manning the building told the police that he saw the Friday entering the building with a 12-year-old girl.
“He said a few minutes later, he heard the girl screaming and later saw the boy leaving. The security guard raised the alarm and the neighbours were alerted and they arrested the suspect. On entering the building, they discovered that the girl was dead.
“The picture of the girl’s corpse shows that the girl is unclad and her faeces is on the floor”.

Ibadan Poly Student Commits Suicide

After failing in his attempt last year, a part-time student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Timilehin Ayobami Ogundare, has taken his own life.
Ayobami was found dead in his room in Ilupeju area, Baasala, Asero, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He was believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself.
The deceased was also a computer operator with a firm in Abeokuta before his death, PM News reports.
A family source who pleaded anonymity said the deceased tried to kill himself last year but was stopped by some people.
The relation revealed that the deceased was arrested by some security guards and handed over to men of the state vigilance service when he attempted to jump into River Ogun. He was later released.
“The whole issue is still like a drama because I don’t know what could have made him decide to take his life. We have been looking for him since January 1. Later, we heard that he went to Lagos. He boarded a train from Lagos back to Abeokuta on Saturday and came down at Lafenwa. He trekked from the station through Enu Gada area to Ajitaadun down to Arakanga area with the aim of jumping into the river.
“He was arrested by the security men in the area when they saw him wandering with only his boxer pant on. They handed him over to the vigilante men at Oke Ilewo for further investigation.
“We went there to collect him and we were told to come back with him yesterday. On getting to his room, we found out that he had hanged himself. He left a short note, apologising that he disappointed us,” the source narrated in tears.
Spokesman of the Ogun State Vigilante Service, Mr. Soji Ganzallo confirmed the incident and expressed shock at the boy’s death.
“It is unfortunate that what we tried to prevent eventually happened. They (family) were careless with the way they handled the boy. If the boy had been properly monitored, this sad incident wouldn’t have happened. We got a distress call on Saturday by local security men around Arakanga that a boy was trying to commit suicide by trying to jump into the river. Our men rushed to the area and took the boy to our office.
“In the course of questioning him, he confirmed to us that he left home for Lagos on New Year day but did not tell us where and who he went to meet in Lagos. When we asked about his phone, he said he had no phone but only his SIM card was with him.
“Sensing that his parents will be looking for him, I directed that his SIM card be inserted into a phone, hoping that someone will call his line,” Ganzallo said.
The vigilante spokesman revealed further that not long after the SIM card was inserted into the phone, several calls came in.
“We discovered that those calls were from his mother, sister and a pastor. The pastor later called back and demanded to stand as surety for his bail. We agreed.
“The man of God arrived with the boy’s mother and some relatives. The pastor’s name is Wole Oyenekan and he gave his address as Egba Inner Circle Building, Abiola Way, Abeokuta.
“We questioned the boy but from what I was able to gather, the boy was determined not to tell anybody his problem. The pastor pleaded with me to hand him over to him. I initially disagreed but after much persuasions and assurance that they will monitor him, I released him to them and asked them to come back on Sunday.
“I was shocked when I heard the news that the boy eventually carried out his mission,” Ganzallo said.
Another source disclosed that the teenager perfected his suicide by refusing to go to church on Sunday, feigning illness.
According to the source, “I remember that he told the pastor while coming from the vigilante’s office that he needed some money to pay for his school fees and the pastor told him to see him on Sunday after church service. After the breakfast, he said he was not feeling well and begged to be allowed to stay back, which was granted.
“After the church service, he joined other family members to eat the lunch around 4 p.m. After the food, he went into his room and no one bothered to know what he was doing until around 8p.m. when we were looking for him.
“When we forced his door opened, we met his lifeless body. He hanged himself with his belt. We went to the Obantoko Police Station to report the matter and the police arrived around 11.45 p.m. and removed his corpse to the mortuary,” he stated.

16-Yr-Old Boko Haram Suspect Narrates How Sect Planned To Attack Abuja At Public Hearing On Apo Building Killing

16-Yr-Old Boko Haram Suspect Narrates How Sect Planned To Attack Abuja At Public Hearing On Apo Building Killing

 

Details yesterday emerged of how members of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram planned to stage an attack in the nation’s capital – Abuja – late last year.

A suspected member of the sect, 16-years old Mohammed Adamu (also known as Engineer), currently under custody of the Department of State Security (DSS) following his arrest alongside two others in Abuja last September, gave details of the aborted attack.

Information got from the arrested suspects led security operatives to invade an uncompleted building on September 20 in Gudu, Apo area, Abuja in which no fewer than eight squatters were shot dead.

Adamu testified yesterday at the public hearing being conducted by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the September 20 killings.

The suspect, who spoke in his native Hausa, was assisted by an interpreter.

He admitted holding nocturnal meetings with 12 others in the uncompleted building at Gudu, near Apo with the intention to launch attacks against government’s interests in their determination to purportedly defend Islam.

Adamu an indigene of Katsina State, who said he worked as a commercial tricycle (Keke NAPEP) rider, testified that he was recruited into the sect by one Suleiman (also known as R Kelly ), who is now at large.

“Within the period, Suleiman told me of a meeting they attended in the uncompleted building and asked me whether I was interested in joining them, but I told him to give me a day to think over it.

“A day after, I told him I was interested. Later, Suleiman warned me not to tell anybody, threatening to deal with me if I did so. Because of that, I became afraid.

“At the meeting, we said we are defending our religion through war, using guns and other weapons. We agreed and wanted to fight with the government; we were holding discussions on ways and manner to carry out the operation.

“We usually converged by 8pm and left by 11pm. Honestly, no policeman ever accosted us”, Adamu testified.

“One day, Suleiman came back with a bag and I enquired what was inside, he opened it and showed me four AK 47 rifles and a pistol.

“I was the youngest in the group and Suleiman is a middle-aged man. On the day of the incident, I led the security operatives to arrest Suleiman and other members around midnight.

“On arrival at the uncompleted building, while the security people approached the building, some people inside the building started shooting at us and I was instructed to lie down by the SSS official.

“Soldiers then returned fire. I saw Suleiman and the others digging out guns where they buried them in front of the building”, Adamu said.

He said Suleiman is also from Katsina state, but denied knowing his whereabouts at the moment.

He also denied being forced to indict himself and other members of the sect saying, “Nobody has told me what to say, Allah is my witness. What I said, is to the best of my knowledge”.

Recounting how he was arrested, Adamu said: “Suleiman gave me a SIM card with an instruction that I should not use the line anyhow. He told me to always put the SIM on around 8pm.

“I was at a mosque when the SSS operatives came, with the help of a machine, when it was my turn, they found the SIM in my phone and that was how I was arrested and taken to the SSS office”.

Another witness, Malam Gambo Idris, one of the surviving occupants of the uncompleted building at Apo confirmed knowing Adamu as a Keke NAPEP rider.

He, however, denied knowledge of any meeting. Adamu identified Gambo as one of the squatters in the building.

The Nigeria Army had told the commission last month that the attack on the uncompleted building was necessitated by intelligence report it got from the DSS of a planned attack on Abuja by Boko Haram.

An official of the DSS, whose name was not mentioned (for security reasons) told the commission that Adamu was among the three Boko Haram suspects arrested on September 18, last year, at Garki 2 near a Mosque before they were brought to the DSS office for interrogation.

Hearing continues today.

Actress Ameze Imarhiagbe is back! Check out her hot new photos

Actress Ameze Imarhiagbe is back! Check out her hot new photos

Remember actress Ameze Imarhiagbe? She found fame many years back in Nollywood movies like Flesh and Blood, Dead End, and Suicide Mission. After more than a decade away from our screens, (she relocated to the US) the actress and movie producer is back and working on new movies. See more promotional pics below

Naija's hottest couple? Check out Mr and Mrs Balogun's sexy pic

Naija's hottest couple? Check out Mr and Mrs Balogun's sexy pic

Tiwa Savage and her husband, Tunji Balogun loved up on a boat...

Acid victim Naomi Oni's alleged attacker finally nabbed. It was her friend!

Acid victim Naomi Oni's alleged attacker finally nabbed. It was her friend!

21 year old acid victim Naomi Oni was disfigured for life after an unknown person wearing a Niqāb threw acid in her face as she walked home from work on Sunday December 30th 2012 in Lodge Avenue Dagenham, east London, (If you missed qit, read about it HERE)

Naomi only described her attacker as a woman wearing an Islamic veil. Over a year later, police has been able to identify the person behind the veil. It was her jealous 21 year old friend, Mary Konye.

According to new reports released by police and tendered in court, Mary, a student at Hertfordshire university, disguised herself in a Niqāb, which showed only her eyes and closely followed Naomi home and allegedly poured the acid on her when they got to a deserted area. She fled the scene immediately after.

Naomi suffered horrific burns on her face and chest and was left scarred for life. Continue...

Mary Konye, who has since been arrested and facing trial, had been Naomi's friend since secondary school. Mary had always been jealous of Naomi, the court heard, and when they fought Mary decided she wanted Naomi disfigured for life and attacked her with acid.

 Naomi Oni's lawyer said in court today: 

'Naomi will tell you about her friendship with the defendant. In particular she will tell you how in the past they had an up and down relationship and how the defendant had admitted to her that on one occasion in anger she threatened to throw acid at Naomi.

'There was a reason why the defendant would have chosen to make such an unusual sort of threat. In the past the two of them had discussed a young woman called Katie Piper.

'She was a woman who had acid thrown at her and that attack had been reported in the media.

'Naomi and the defendant had discussed this and it appears that the defendant knew that Naomi had been particularly moved by Katie Piper’s ordeal.

'Naomi stated that she and the defendant had fallen out in the past and says that there was an occasion during a row when she called the defendant ugly.

'She says that they were later back on speaking terms and importantly, that the defendant said to her that she (the defendant) had been so angry at the time that she had said to someone else, a friend of the defendant’s called Kamilah Andrews, that she (the defendant) wanted to throw acid at Naomi.

'Naomi believed that the defendant had realised just how upset she had been by Katie Piper’s horrible ordeal.'

'She could not see the face of the person, just the light-brown coloured skin around the eyes. She believed it was a female. The woman was staring at her.

'All of a sudden Naomi felt a liquid being thrown into her face. She screamed and immediately felt her face burning. She could smell her skin and hair burning. She immediately ran home.

Mary Konye denies pouring acid on Naomi. The trial continues...

Nigerian girl left disfigured after acid was thrown in her face as she walked home

Nigerian girl left disfigured after acid was thrown in her face as she walked home

20 year old Naomi Oni was disfigured for life when a unknown person wearing a niqab threw acid in her face as she walked home from work on Sunday December 30th in Lodge Avenue Dagenham, east London.

Naomi told The Evening Standard that she was on her way back from work when  she heard someone behind her. She explains:

'I’d been working a late shift and was talking to my boyfriend about what we were going to do for New Year when I saw this Muslim woman wearing a niqab covering her face. I thought it was a bit strange at that time of night, but she didn’t say anything and I kept on walking.

'Then I felt a splash on my face. It burned and I screamed out. I started running and screaming, holding my face, all the way home. I didn’t look back. I got home and I was screaming and banging on the door. I was hysterical. Luckily my godmother, who is a pharmacist, was at home with my mum and she helped me and kept dipping my face in water and trying to calm me down until the police and ambulance got there.

'I was in shock. Saying: "Who would do that? Who would do that?" How could anyone do this?'.

Naomi recently released photos of her disfigured face after police failed to find the person who did this to her. She's now appealing to the public to help her catch her attacker. She said she would never feel safe with her attacker still at large. She also said the attack has destroyed her life 

'I look in the mirror and it just isn’t me. I’ll never look the same again. I’ve always been outgoing and confident in my job and in my personal life, used to getting attention for the way I dress or my hair, but now I don’t want anyone looking at me. I don’t want people to see me in public. I don’t want to get the Tube or the bus. If I have to go to the hospital I take a taxi.

'I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to go back to my job. I was planning to go to college in September to study media and fashion, but I don’t even know if I’ll be able to do that.

Even with the support of my family and friends and boyfriend I feel very alone,' she said. 'Nothing is going to be same anymore.'

Naomi faces years of skin grafts and plastic surgery

Actress Halima Abubakar goes blue! :-)

Actress Halima Abubakar goes blue! :-)

Dress, shoes and lipstick to match. My kind of girl... Lol.

Rihanna sets eyes on another hot dude that looks like Chris Brown

Rihanna sets eyes on another hot dude that looks like Chris Brown

Rihanna has her eyes on another hot dude. She posted a pic of NFL player Mychal Kendricks on her instagram page today and admitted that he's her #MCM. #ManCrushMonday.

Mychal is 23 years old and looks like a healthy version of Chris Brown. Someone should hook them up fast fast!

Nigerians and bleaching cream..Lol. Dencia's Whitenicious sells out

Nigerians and bleaching cream..Lol. Dencia's Whitenicious sells out

I don't think Whitenicious is a bleaching cream but because it sounds like one, it's already sold out! Kai, Naija babes and bleaching cream...lol

Rivers Police Denies Being Under Pressure To Release Six Suspects Caught With AK-47 Rifles, Ammunition

                   THE ARRESTED SUSPECTS

The Rivers State Police Command has denied reports in a section of the media that it was under pressure to release the six suspects, who were arrested by the Joint Task Force, JTF, weekend, in Ogu Bolo Local Government Area of the state and handed over to it for further investigation.

The JTF in the Niger Delta had arrested the six suspects for alleged illegal possession of fire arms.
Among items recovered from them were seven AK 47 rifles and ammunition.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmad Muhammad (DSP), yesterday in a statement said the command was yet to commence interrogation of the suspects because the JTF had not handed over the weapons allegedly recovered from the suspects during the arrest.
The statement added that the Police only got a letter from 2 Brigade of JTF, Port Harcourt, on the arrest.
He said: “Rivers State Police command would like to inform the general public that at 2030 hours on January 3, 2014, the command received a letter from the 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army, on the arrest of some suspects, alleging that the men were in possession of seven AK 47 rifles and ammunition. Neither the arms nor ammunition were handed over to the Police.
“The Commander of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Mr. Tunji Disu, is still waiting for the transfer of the exhibits before he can commence interrogation. The police do not rush into conclusion, but carry out discreet investigation before making things public”.
While debunking the insinuation that it was under pressure from powers that be to release the suspects, the statement described the media reports as untrue, misleading and mischievous.